The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 249
And it said, ‘Go and tell my master that the gazelle is nearer death than life.’
Who acts: basinful, gazelle · What happens: say, go, tell, be · To what, where: master, nearer death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basinful, gazelle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 6 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Go | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 death | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gazelle | det |
| 13 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 death | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 death | cop |
| 15 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 death | amod |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 death | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | basinful | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | my master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the gazelle | nearer death | than life | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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